Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

QS hires law students to sell the brand in WHSmith

QualitySolicitors has secured an exclusive partnership with WHSmith which will see the legal franchise offer 'legal access points' in 150 WHSmith stores on the high street and railway stations.

Supreme Court rules against house disguised as a barn

The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled this morning that a man who built a 'barn' on a greenbelt land is not entitled to planning permission for the three-bedroom house and gym hidden inside it.

SRA's new 'ten commandments' handbook sets tougher entry rules

The new solicitors' handbook published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority today promises a set of modern principles applicable to all entities operating in the legal services sector come ABS day on 6 October, including tougher requirements for new entrants.

Norgrove prepares family justice system for the post-cuts world

David Norgrove, whose interim report on the family justice system was published last week, has said he anticipated that legal aid would be restricted for private law cases.

Committee 'pulls its punches' on legal aid

The justice select committee â€œpulled its punchesâ€ in its report on legal aid, Steve Hynes, director of the Legal Action Group, has said.

Go ahead for Jackson 'bitterly disappointing', claimant lawyers say

Claimant lawyers have described the government's decision to implement all the major reforms of the Jackson review on costs in civil litigation as â€œbitterly disappointingâ€.

No place like home

Could home births now be outlawed following rulings by Brussels and Strasbourg? Barbara Hewson reports

No win, no fee, no way

When Ken Clarke unveiled his widely anticipated plans to reform no win, no fee arrangements last Tuesday, nobody expected that he would also put forward another set of proposals for the reform of the civil justice system as a whole. In the maelstrom that engulfed the personal injury world later that day, one issue was remarkably absent...

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